A8 The BulleTin • Friday, June 18, 2021
Tram
Continued from A7
One thing that tram riders
often wonder is how supplies
reach the summit, particularly
the Summit Grill. Outside are
two large propane tanks that
would hardly fit in a cabin.
Lockhart said there is a road-
way up the back side of Mount
Howard that comes up near
Ferguson Ridge. Large items
can be brought up that way.
Most supplies, however, are
brought up on the tram via a
“boxcar” — an open, yellow car.
A road accessible only by
all-terrain vehicle provides ac-
cess to each of the towers that
carry the cable.
Improvements made
Most of the improvements
made by the current owners
have been about maintenance,
Lockhart said.
“Over the past three years,
we’ve done some extensive re-
modeling,” he said, replacing
parts where needed.
“We started a very aggressive
maintenance program. We’ve
taken every assembly off,”
Lockhart said, and had a ma-
chine shop in Enterprise refur-
bish parts during the offseason.
They also have made some
additions to the attraction.
When they bought it, there was
only the terminal at the sum-
mit. Riders would go up, hike
around, enjoy the view and
ride back down. But the cur-
rent owners poured a concrete
slab, added a patio and the
Summit Grill.
Improvements considered
The owners also are consid-
ering additions they can create.
Already the tram does some
catering to skiers.
“We take people up in the
spring and they hike over to
East Peak and do a mountain-
eering-type of skiing,” Lock-
hart said.
In the 1990s, they consid-
ered adding ski runs down
the back of Mount Howard
that would end near Ferguson
Ridge Ski Area.
Lockhart hopes to be able
to add interpretive tours of the
mountaintop, including the his-
tory of the moraines, if they
can find the right person to
do the interpreting.
That could be happening
soon,” he said. “But that’s a
special person we’d have to
find.”
There also has been dis-
cussion of campsites in the
area, but those would de-
pend on the markets, the
economy and what the U.S.
Forest Service says of the
ideas, since two-thirds of
the tram is on its land.
The future?
Lockhart has hopes for
the future of the tram.
“There’s things we would
like to see happen,” he said.
“There’s a possibility some-
one besides me could think
(more) about winter sports.”
But for now, they just
want to keep improving
what’s there.
“We’ve been going 50
years and we’d like to add a
few more things,” he said.
“We don’t know what the
life of the lift is, so we’ll have
to see.”
Dams
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Getting to this point has taken
decades of work, and overcom-
ing a number of setbacks that
threatened to derail the plan.
The four dams were origi-
nally built between 1911 and
1962, with a total generating
capacity of 169 megawatts. Ef-
forts to remove the dams be-
gan in 2010 as part of the orig-
inal Klamath Hydroelectric
Settlement Agreement.
At the time, the agreement
was tied to another agreement,
the Klamath Basin Restoration
Agreement, which would have
funded a multitude of projects
to provide greater irrigation
water security for basin farm-
ers and ranchers.
Congress, however, failed
to implement the agreements
prior to the Jan. 1, 2016, dead-
line, despite consensus from
federal, state, county, tribal and
agricultural partners.
Instead, an amended ver-
sion of the Klamath Hydro-
electric Settlement Agreement
went forward in 2016 while
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Kathryn Lundeen, owner
of Culver City, California, gift
shop Lundeen’s, she said she
wishes customers would be
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Joan Rinker
January 1937 - June 2021
Joan Rinker, age 84, of Bend,
passed away June 12, 2021 in
her home.
Joan was born in January
1937
in
Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. She att ended
nursing school in Johnstown
and had a long professional
career as an RN. She married
her husband, Harold, in 1962.
Joan was acti vely involved
with her church. She loved quilti ng, craft s, and hosti ng
gatherings for her friends.
Joan is survived by her four children (Mark, Martha,
Matt hew, and John) and four siblings (Walter, Larry,
Janet, and her twin sister, Jean). She was preceded in
death by her parents, twin siblings (Jimmy and Jayne),
and husband.
the Klamath Basin Restoration
Agreement was left behind.
The split triggered frustrations
among farmers and ranchers.
This year is especially painful,
as extreme drought prompted
the Bureau of Reclamation to
shut off water to most of the
Klamath Project in May.
“If that other settlement
was in place right now, our
farmers in the Klamath Basin
would have well over 300,000
acre-feet of water, instead of no
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ecutive director of the Family
Farm Alliance. “To see one of
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